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Awarua Communications Museum Oral History Collection, 2014-

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Subject Source: Local sources

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COSTIGAN, Leslie James (Les) interviewed by Seona Craig

 Record Group — Box 32
Identifier: H0235
Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Les tells of his employment at the Awarua Station where he lived in the hostel. He describes having to practice Morse code, the receiving and transmitting processes on older radio equipment, and receiving messages from ships all over the world. His job included manning the disaster watch for large ships using Morse code to provide safety for life at sea. He also describes Mayday calls. In 1974 he...
Dates: 2015